Bethany Lacina is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He earned his B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.
Her research is on civil and ethnic conflict, especially disputes over territorial autonomy and migration.
Representative Publications
Lacina, Bethany. “How Governments Shape the Risk of Civil Violence: India’s Federal Reorganization, 1950–56.” American Journal of Political Science 58.3 (2014): 720-738.
Lacina, Bethany. “India’s Stabilizing Segment States.” Ethnopolitics 13.1 (2014): 13-27.
Lacina, Bethany. “The problem of political stability in Northeast India: Local ethnic autocracy and the rule of law.” Asian Survey 49.6 (2009): 998-1020.
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